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Dokapon Delivers!
posted by ThaSquare (ROSEVILLE, CA) Nov 1, 2008
Member since May 2007
9 out of 9 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
Dokapon Kingdom is an extremely unique type of game; it’s part board game, part RPG. The main goal in the game is to retake as much of the gold stolen by monsters as possible. By making your way around the map, fighting off the evil creatures that roam about, you’ll be on your way to achieving this task. At the same time, you’ll be gaining experience in the job you’ve chosen. Master this and be rewarded with a new role to play with its own set of abilities and power ups. Use items and spells to detour your friends’ progress and gain the advantage.
There are plenty of ways to become worth your weight. You’ll fetch a lofty sum by freeing individual towns of their loitering leviathan. Kill the beasts that inhabit the cities and you’ll be voted into office posthaste. You can then collect taxes from its citizens and invest in the city itself to reap even more dough. Once the town reaches level three, it will begin producing valuable items which you can send to the king to win his favor. You can also fight other players to jack their stash, rob stores to put a few bills in your bank account, and kiss some serious butt to gain a the king's favor.
There are also quite a staggering number of classes to choose as you embark upon your quest. 24 roles await your unlocking and each carries with it new abilities and perks. You first start the game with only three jobs (or classes, if you will) - Magician, Thief, and Warrior. By mastering these, you'll unearth more jobs to choose from.
Even without online, Dokapon Kingdom is a very fun experience. When it's played with friends, it only gets better. There is a ton of stuff to do and see in this sleeper hit. I've spent over 15 hours in the game already and I don't think I'm anywhere near the end of this game. There are dozens of towns to recapture, spells to cast, items to use, hidden paths to find, missions to accomplish, and jobs to master. This is the type of game we need to see more of.
8/10
There are plenty of ways to become worth your weight. You’ll fetch a lofty sum by freeing individual towns of their loitering leviathan. Kill the beasts that inhabit the cities and you’ll be voted into office posthaste. You can then collect taxes from its citizens and invest in the city itself to reap even more dough. Once the town reaches level three, it will begin producing valuable items which you can send to the king to win his favor. You can also fight other players to jack their stash, rob stores to put a few bills in your bank account, and kiss some serious butt to gain a the king's favor.
There are also quite a staggering number of classes to choose as you embark upon your quest. 24 roles await your unlocking and each carries with it new abilities and perks. You first start the game with only three jobs (or classes, if you will) - Magician, Thief, and Warrior. By mastering these, you'll unearth more jobs to choose from.
Even without online, Dokapon Kingdom is a very fun experience. When it's played with friends, it only gets better. There is a ton of stuff to do and see in this sleeper hit. I've spent over 15 hours in the game already and I don't think I'm anywhere near the end of this game. There are dozens of towns to recapture, spells to cast, items to use, hidden paths to find, missions to accomplish, and jobs to master. This is the type of game we need to see more of.
8/10
A "Kingdom" made for more than one player
posted by JMichaud (BETHESDA, MD) Oct 21, 2008
Member since Jan 2008
5 out of 6 gamers (83%) found this review helpful
They took Mario Party and Final Fantasy, tossed them into a blender, hit the "liquefy" button and viola, they got Dokapon Kingdom.
In this game, you go about a Mario Party type board, beating up monsters, saving towns from more monsters and keeping a lid on your opponent(s).
Almost every space has you fight off monsters of many types in the same way as in Final Fantasy; you take turns being the attacker or defender. You select your attack/defense using the Control Pad, and watch what happens. First one to lose all HP, or forfeits the match loses.
Other spaces are stores where you buy/trade items, towns where you can stay the night, management spaces where you manage the money in any towns you have under you control, and the castle where you can change your job or appearance.
The game is over when all the towns have been saved and several main tasks have been performed. Here, the game declares a winner.
But don't expect that anytime soon; games can go on for hours as you build your character up to fighting fit form.
Also, the board is divided up into sections, some with easy monsters and some with hard monsters. It's not easy to determine which is which. Go off on a wrong path, and your hero will get killed. The AI doesn't have this problem and can get off to a unfair start.
The game can get unbalanced very easily. If you get behind, it's real tough to make up ground; the other players can beat you into the ground and any towns you want to save are guarded by monsters that will beat you into the ground.
The biggest strength/weakness is that this game should be played multiplayer only. Get a few friends and you'll have a great time with Dokapon Kingdom. It's no fun going at it solo.
Rent Dokapon Kingdom and give it a try - with a few pals.
In this game, you go about a Mario Party type board, beating up monsters, saving towns from more monsters and keeping a lid on your opponent(s).
Almost every space has you fight off monsters of many types in the same way as in Final Fantasy; you take turns being the attacker or defender. You select your attack/defense using the Control Pad, and watch what happens. First one to lose all HP, or forfeits the match loses.
Other spaces are stores where you buy/trade items, towns where you can stay the night, management spaces where you manage the money in any towns you have under you control, and the castle where you can change your job or appearance.
The game is over when all the towns have been saved and several main tasks have been performed. Here, the game declares a winner.
But don't expect that anytime soon; games can go on for hours as you build your character up to fighting fit form.
Also, the board is divided up into sections, some with easy monsters and some with hard monsters. It's not easy to determine which is which. Go off on a wrong path, and your hero will get killed. The AI doesn't have this problem and can get off to a unfair start.
The game can get unbalanced very easily. If you get behind, it's real tough to make up ground; the other players can beat you into the ground and any towns you want to save are guarded by monsters that will beat you into the ground.
The biggest strength/weakness is that this game should be played multiplayer only. Get a few friends and you'll have a great time with Dokapon Kingdom. It's no fun going at it solo.
Rent Dokapon Kingdom and give it a try - with a few pals.
Neat game, but not very fun
posted by MichaelO (PITTSBURGH, PA) Jun 14, 2012
Member since Sep 2010
As usual, Atlus has delivered a unique game which doesn't fall into the usual genres. The best summary I can give is that Dokapon Kingdom is like the board game Life if it were an RPG. On the one hand you have a class, level, stats, equipment, etc., but on the other hand you move around on a board and land on spaces which give you random battles, new items, gold, and so on. Your goal is to end the game with more stuff ("Life points") than any other character.
Unfortunately, this game is undone by all of the details. There is too much randomness and chaos in the game, the battle system is not fair or well-balanced, and the game is extremely confusing and somewhat aimless when you are getting started. The rock/paper/scissors style battles are not a suitable battle system for an RPG, the random chance of who acts first in a battle or what numbers you roll can make a huge difference in the game, and good luck figuring out any of the game's details and nuances without using an online guide of some kind. I really wanted to like this game, but instead I found it frustrating, confusing, and unpredictable.
In addition, it's worth noting that the game is much more fun with more than one player. The one player game is simply the multi-player game with AIs controlling the other player(s). At least if you are playing with other humans, you can enjoy the ups and downs, enjoy harassing and pranking your friend's character, and maybe even enjoy when you are undone by a frustrating bit of random chance. Against an AI, none of these things are very fun, and the game falls especially flat.
If you've got 1-3 RPG lovers who'll dedicate some time playing with you, if you really love board games, or if you love to see something unique and different, this might be worth a rent, but otherwise I'd skip it.
Unfortunately, this game is undone by all of the details. There is too much randomness and chaos in the game, the battle system is not fair or well-balanced, and the game is extremely confusing and somewhat aimless when you are getting started. The rock/paper/scissors style battles are not a suitable battle system for an RPG, the random chance of who acts first in a battle or what numbers you roll can make a huge difference in the game, and good luck figuring out any of the game's details and nuances without using an online guide of some kind. I really wanted to like this game, but instead I found it frustrating, confusing, and unpredictable.
In addition, it's worth noting that the game is much more fun with more than one player. The one player game is simply the multi-player game with AIs controlling the other player(s). At least if you are playing with other humans, you can enjoy the ups and downs, enjoy harassing and pranking your friend's character, and maybe even enjoy when you are undone by a frustrating bit of random chance. Against an AI, none of these things are very fun, and the game falls especially flat.
If you've got 1-3 RPG lovers who'll dedicate some time playing with you, if you really love board games, or if you love to see something unique and different, this might be worth a rent, but otherwise I'd skip it.
Entertaining as a multiplayer
posted by jdsampson (APACHE JUNCTION, AZ) Jan 2, 2009
Member since Sep 2007
At first when we started playing the game we didn't really know what was going on because of very little tutorial but after plugging on for a little while we started to understand what was going on better. There is a lot of depth to the game and much more strategy to it then you will originaly think when starting. There are a lot of quest that you will be sent on and is a game that you can play for a little bit every time you get together with your friends. It's hard to explain the game. It is basicly a board game mixed with an RPG. You level up and do job changes to advance your character. But you roll the dice and move around to different spaces and depending on the space you land on different things will happen.
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